Chapter 596 Leonardo Libo
“I originally wanted to keep this painting for myself.” Leonardo Libo cherishedly touched the white oak frame with copper wire. He gritted his teeth and said, "For 12 gold pounds, you can take this "Portrait of the Resurrection of the Holy Lord"."
The nobleman opposite him put his head in front of the painting and looked at it carefully for a long time. He opened his mouth and said: "Of course I believe in Master Leonardo's paintings, but I just escaped from Dawn Island and don't have that many gold pounds with me. I'm afraid I can only take out 10 gold pounds."
"Saint "Father, 10 gold pounds? Are you kidding me? I didn't even sell Dame Yashar for 24 gold pounds, but I gave you a 50% discount." Leonardo's hand tightened on the photo frame. .
“But I can only squeeze out 10 gold pounds at most. This is the highest price I can offer.”
The two juniors next to him began to persuade: "Sir Leonardo, the area around Dawn Island is in chaos. We still have to save for travel expenses. How much is the price?"
"Then I won't sell it. "The angry Leonardo picked up this beautiful painting and began to repackage it with paper. "I would rather borrow a loan shark, anyway, this is I took the painting to the Kingdom of France, and it’s not much to sell it for 20 gold pounds.”
Seeing that Leonardo really planned to repackage it and take it away, this man escaped from the war zone on Dawn Island. The nobleman quickly stopped him: "Okay, okay, how much do you want to say?"
"Twelve gold pounds, not a single copper less." Leonardo tilted his head stubbornly.
Two quarters of an hour later, Leonardo walked out of this country mansion with several junior students. Leonardo weighed the money bag in his hand and couldn't help but lament.
"I know, you think it's too cheap, and we won't have money to enjoy it in the future." Looney, the curly-haired junior student, advised, "But today is different from the past, let's fill our stomachs first."
Lai Leonardo shook his head: "I don't think the painting is cheap, it's just that it's a vulgar person who doesn't understand art. The nobles are just arty, no different from the kings and dukes who spread plague, death and pain wantonly."
"Nobles are always vulgar, but we cannot do without them, otherwise who will sponsor our art. With academics." Looney lifted up his robe and jumped over the puddle on the ground.
"It would be great if there was a place where I could study freely without being interfered by the nobility, well, or the church." When he mentioned this, Leonardo felt a surge in his chest. Angina pectoris, "My perpetual motion machine, my perpetual motion machine."
You know, he lived frugally, sold paintings crazily, and spent huge sums of money to build the prototype of a spiral flush perpetual motion machine.
This time was different from the last time with the ball bearing perpetual motion machine. He had a vague hunch that this kind of perpetual motion machine that used the principle of water and the falling of objects might have reached the threshold of a true perpetual motion machine.
If this kind of perpetual motion machine can be realized, farmers will no longer need the lord's mill, and merchants will no longer need carriages. We can even shrink this perpetual motion machine and install it with dragonfly-like wings, so that it can fly!
Leonardo has finished the design drawings, and is waiting for the perpetual motion machine to be completed and published on it, so that he can finally graduate.
However, when the final construction part was just around the corner, war came.
From February to May, a terrible tug-of-war broke out at the junction of Dawn Island and Heshang Island.
Leonardo thought that the two dukes were about to advance to Changsong City, and the war would be over soon.
But surprisingly, not only did it not end, but it became more intense and affected most groups in society at an extremely fast speed, and scholars were no exception.
First craftsmen were captured building siege engines, then soldiers broke into universities to extort property and rob warehouses, then cholera swept through, and then medical students were forced into the army.
If Leonardo hadn't run so fast, he would have turned into a military engineer and gone to the battlefield with His Majesty the King.
But the price is that after being delayed for fifteen years, he will be delayed again this year.
His great dream was about to be realized, but it was shattered because of the selfish desires of these inferior nobles. How could Leonardo not be angry?
Together with his junior student Looney, Leonardo led three footmen and the five of them walked along the fence and country road for more than ten minutes before arriving at a farm outside the town.
The farm is located near the main road, and farmers can be seen working or grazing in the fields. Occasionally, the "howling" sound of wolves can be heard from the nearby woods, which is the hunter hired by the town. The devil is hunting wolves.
Unlike the previous days when the entire avenue was filled with people fleeing to the countryside, Vinsenland Port is located on the edge of Dawn Island, far away from the center of the battlefield, and is relatively peaceful. "Old Sani, why are your eyes red?" Holding the money bag, Luni greeted the gatekeeper outside the farm.
The old gatekeeper rubbed the shit in his eyes: "I'm old and can't sleep well."
Leonardo was not in the mood to chat with the old gatekeeper, so he said hello and opened the door and walked into the Heshangyu King. University.
This farm is today's King's University on Hoshangyu, or a branch of King's University on Hoshangyu.
Imperial University is very different from modern universities. Modern universities only have schools, funds and teachers, while Imperial University only has masters.
They didn't even have the concept of a university in the early days, but a scholar's guild similar to the Dragon Language Scholars Association. It was not only an academic institution and an educational institution, but even a commercial institution, with its own craftsmen and shops.
For the Scholars Guild, education is incidental and not the main purpose.
It was not until 1268 that the Salin Scholars Society of the Golden Horn moved south, and more than a dozen famous masters and scholars in the empire united to share resources to educate students, and this was the prototype of a university.
In 1357, with the recognition of the then emperor and king of France, Huaqiu Imperial University was officially established.
Afterwards, they split and reorganized many times, and finally formed eleven universities within the empire.
Among them, there are seven in Flan, three in Leia, and only one pitiful one in the Kingdom of Norn, which is often removed by the Pope.
The university where Leonardo studied as an illegitimate son of a noble was the King's University on the River Islet in Changsong City.
After the war broke out, except for those who were closely related to the king, most teachers and students temporarily fled the war zone, either hiding temporarily to avoid the limelight, or simply going to other universities.
Currently, Leonardo’s team has doubts about whether to avoid the limelight or go to other universities.
There are more than a dozen carriages parked in the farm, carrying various manuscripts and tools. Scholars wearing bachelor's robes come and go, while craftsmen and workers carry rations to the carriages.
Seeing Leonardo back, the craftsmen took off their hats in greeting, while the college students and scholars nodded in greeting.
In the largest knight's hall in the farm, Leonardo knocked on the door and then pushed in.
The scholars who were having lunch in the hall looked up one after another. When they saw Leonardo coming back, they all wiped their mouths and stood up to greet him.
"Good afternoon, Mr. Libo."
"Good afternoon, Dean of Senius College."
"Good afternoon, Mr. Libo."
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"Good afternoon..."
After greeting the four teachers one by one, Leonardo walked straight to the soup bucket.
“I sold two paintings today for a total of 22 gold pounds. This travel expenses can last about two weeks.” After grabbing a bowl of pea soup, Leonardo served hummus and bread. Sit down, "We have to decide how to leave in the next few days, we can't delay any longer."
(End of this chapter)